adjectives for typedef'd names

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

PCC happens to treat ``typedef''ed names exactly the same as the
thing to which they are typed.  (At least, if you say

	typedef int foo;

	main () {
		register unsigned foo i;
		short foo;
		...
	}

you get one ``register unsigned int'' and no ``short int''s.)  I
prefer this, because this is the way I think of them.  In fact I
used to get the order of ``typedef'' backwards, because I thought
of them as ``glorified #define's''.  (The one advantage they have
over #define's is that they can make things syntactically simpler,
e.g.,

	typedef int (*pfun)();	/* pointer to function returning int */
	pfun table[] = { ... };	/* a table of pointers to functions */

.)
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